Genealogy of Jim McKinney - Eva Mary Stanley

Eva Mary Stanley

F, (10 December 1877 - 17 December 1967)

Father*

Joseph Henry Stanley¹ (23 May 1845 - 3 Jul 1929)

Mother*

Phebe Jane Wheeler (16 Feb 1851 - 2 Aug 1933)

Charts

Pedigree for Stanley Russell McKinney

Relationship

Great-grandmother of James Jay McKinney.

Last Edited

9 Jan 2007

Reference

MMMMC

Researcher

Unrelated

Jim Ancestry Verified

Note*

Recollections of Gene McKinney their grandson: Joseph was baptized as a Catholic. Eva was a pretty strong Quaker. When he went down there she was a Methodist. We would go to the Methodist church. Gene said Cherokee Co. was one of the biggest spots for Quakerism in Kansas. Remembers when Grandfather Joe took him to town, Neutral, in his old Model T. When he got a newer Chevrolet pickup truck he took me into Columbus. Dad would take us down there and they would take care of us for a week at a time. Grandma didn't smile a lot but was always nice. Show us cows and sheep. He was real hard working guy. Found out later on that he was a truck farmer. In 30's he had a lot of cows, sheep, and pigs, strawberries. Grandmother was a good cook. Knew grandparents on Dad's side better than Mom. Thought it was natural since Dad had a car. Only way to Jones if they took a train., Principal=Joseph McKinney²

Note

Memories of Joe and Eva McKinney:
One of my earliest memories, is that my dad left to go to work in the mines in Colorado, Jailboat [or Jelbo?], Colorado. I remember him coming home with a pack on his back when he came back from the mines. I remember him walking into the gate up at the house. At the time, in Pueblo, Colorado, the miners went on a strike. They were advertising for people to go to work. Strikebreakers, actually. And he was one of those, that went out to work in the mines during the strike. [For how long.] It was only for a few months. Not very long. This had to be about 1905 or 6. I was just a small child. That's the first thing I actually remember. That's all I remember about it, other than he went and he came back. I remember when he came back, we were looking for him. He came home on a train, he come walking up the lane with a pack on back. I remember that. That's all I remember. [Is that the only thing your father did outside of farming?] Yeah.

The Lowell Academy was similar to a High School in those days. That's where my mother and dad went to school, and my uncles and aunts, some of them. The old Lowell Academy. I don't know whether the old building is still there or not. But it was similar to a High School. Other than that Lowell had nothing much to do with the history of the family. So Colombus was the county seat. That's where we did most of our business deals. Even though we were just as close to Baxter. We moved to the family home in 1910, I was eight years old. That's where I went to grade school in a little town called Neutral.

I will have to think a little bit on that. Probably the most significant thing that had a bearing on my life was the fact that Mother took we kids to Sunday School and church, every Sunday, where we learned the difference between right and wrong. She scrubbed our necks and ears, cleaned us all up. We'd go to Sunday School, and if we had to stay for church, we didn't like it. We had an old preacher, he was a donkard[?] big long beard, he'd get up there and rattle on and rattle on and we'd got bored listening to him. But that is the only things that I think attributed to my success was my teaching in the old church house when I was a kid.

The other thing is my dad and I didn't get along, but he had a great bearing on my thinking of life due to fact they called him "Honest Joe." He was very honest, he never swore, he never drank, he loved the almighty dollar, he squeezed to legal whatever you might want to call it. But the fact that he was an honest man, in his business, when he was peddling out potatoes, tomatoes and stuff like that. Door[?] to Stores, when they weighed it up, he'd add a couple of pounds [added extra produce]. Where some of the other hucksters would short them. And he got the name of being the honest huckster, if you want to call him that, or peddler. And that had great influence on my life the fact that I had a great deal of respect for his honesty. Which I think I inherited.

They lived together. Farmed together. She went to town twice a year is all. Something like that. They didn't run to grocery store to get a loaf of bread every time you run out. She seldom went to town. She visited her parents. I mean every two or three times a year. Or they would come out to visit her. She knew where they were. That's all. [What are your memories of her, your mother?] She was . . . in doing, she never complained. I don't think I ever heard her complain about anything. She liked her flowers. She liked her ol' pump organ. She was tickled to death when she got a piano. I never heard Dad, scold her, even though I thought, still think he was very selfish, but she never complained. That's about . . . she was always good to we kids. She never whooped us. Dad did, he beat the hell out of us. We knew it. We were scared of him. But I never knew of him mistreating her physically or by sort of word. I always thought that he could have been a lot better to her and taken her a few places she'd like to go. My Dad didn't like company. He resented people coming visiting very long at a time. Mother loved company. Her sisters and her relatives would come and see us. Dad [?] go to the barn and sulk or something. But up until the last couple of years I didn't enjoy much out of him. I never knew any other way. We had plenty to eat [?]. [After you left home, what was your relationship with your parents?] Well I wrote to Mother regularly. She wrote us [splendid?] in hand. As a kid, I always tried to write like her. I've succeeded to a certain extent. I write a better hand than any of my kids. Better than my Dad did. She was the organist down out the church. [At the Methodist church, right?] Yeah. She sang alto in the choir. In the quartet. And enjoyed it. She worked a lot in the garden. She did a lot of canning. She did a lot of cooking. They did a lot of butchery in the Fall. [Canning?] wheat and berries and whatever. Apples. Peaches. Cherries. Whatever. She was always busy working. Always had a big bunch of chickens. Somebody would come, she go out and catch that ol' [?] , her chicken. Go over to the chopping block with the axe and chop its head off. Watch it flop click click flopping.

[What was the effect of the Quaker religion on your family?] The effect. There wasn't any. [She was born a Quaker and your father was what?] He was born a Catholic. Or supposedly. His father was Catholic. Dad never did practice it that I know of. Mother's people were staunch Quakers. I don't know of any Religion having any bearing on the way we lived.

[Joseph Stanley] lived there for a while in Lowell after he left the farm. After that he rented the farm to my dad. My dad was a gardener, he raised [?] his special crop was sweet potatoes. But he raised tomatoes and he raised radishes, raised strawberries, raised turnips, and ordinary garden stuff. He raised watermelons. Orange[?] potatoes. But his principal crop was sweet potatoes. [So you did the planting in the Spring and then harvest during the Summer?] Yes. Other than that he didn't raise any wheat. He didn't raise any corn, except sweet corn. For feed for the livestock, he sowed oats. He didn't harvest them with a harvester, he cut them with a bowling[?] machine, and go out and rake them up. We haul them and put them in the barn for hay during the Winter. [How many acres was the farm?]50.[How much livestock was there?] Most the time, he only had three horses and about two to three cows. Maybe four or five pigs. And a bunch of chickens. [So it wasn't a very prosperous farm then?] Oh no, not as things go. But he made more money off that fifty acres from this gardening business than most guys did from a 160 raising corn and wheat. And it wasn't until later after I left home that he accumulated a couple more farms and started raising wheat and corn. [The farm that Ern has now. That's what he rents it out as, right?] He bought that, while I was away. [Whose farm was that? The Stanley farm?] No, Ern has both of them. The Stanley farm and the other one, both. [The McKinney farm?] Yes. [That your dad had?] Yeah. [But he rents both of those out? He doesn't farm anything himself does he?] Who Ern, no. He hadn't farmed for himself since he left Las Vegas. He's always rented his farms out. He accumulated both those farms, shortly after he left Las Vegas. [Did he save money to buy them?] He bought the rest of the heirs out. He had part of it before that., Principal=Joseph McKinney³

Married Name

McKinney³

Birth*

10 December 1877

Near Brush Creek, Cherokee Co., KS^4,1,5

Marriage*

3 July 1901

Lowell, Cherokee Co., KS, Recollections of S.R., their son:
[Did they meet at school?] Presumedly. I don't know a thing about it. It was never talked about so far as I know. I never did hear any talk about it at all., Principal=Joseph McKinney³

Census*

15 April 1910

Spring Valley Township, Cherokee Co., KS, Joseph McKinney, Head, Age 34,Married 9 years,born in MO,Father born in Ireland, Mother born in MO,General farmer, Looks like he was renting farm but unsure, can read and write Truck farmer working on own account; Eva S.,wife, Age 32, Married 9 years, mother of 3 children all living, born in KS, Father born in IA, Mother born in NC;can read and write;Russell S., son, Age 8,born in KS, Father born in MO, Mother born in KS, did not attend school during past school year;Ernest M., son, Age 6,born in KS, Father born in MO, Mother born in KS, did not attend school during past school year;Herald R., son, Age 5,born in KS, Father born in MO, Mother born in KS, did not attend school during past school year., Principal=Joseph McKinney, Witness=Stanley Russell McKinney⁶

Census

27 March 1920

Spring Valley, Cherokee Co., KS, Joseph McKinney, Head,Owned Farm free of mortgage, Age 43,Married, can read and write,born in MO,Father born in Ireland, Mother born in MO, Truck farmer working on own account; Eva S.,wife, Age 42, can read and write,born in KS, Father born in IA, Mother born in NC; Ernest M., son, Age 16,did not attend school during past school year, can read and write,born in KS, Father born in MO, Mother born in KS, Farm laborer; Robert H., son, Age 15,DID attend school during past school year, can read and write,born in KS, Father born in MO, Mother born in KS, Farm laborer; Joseph M. , son, Age 4 4/12,did not attend school during past school year, cannot read or write,born in KS, Father born in MO, Mother born in KS., Principal=Joseph McKinney⁷

Photo*

circa 1927

1927 circa. L-R: Harold McKinney, Margaret McKinney, Edna Jones, Alice (Jones) McKinney, Gail McKinney, and Eva (stanley) McKinney . Identified by Jim McKinney. Date based on appearance of kids. Photo owned by Jim McKinney. , Principal=Phoebe Alice Jones, Witness=Edna Mae Jones, Witness=Russel Gale McKinney, Witness=Margaret Helen McKinney, Witness=Robert Harold McKinney

(Witness) Photo

circa 1928

Circa 1928. L-R: Harold McKinney, Margaret McKinney, Edna (nee Jones) McDonald, Alice (nee Jones) McKinney, Gail McKinney, and Eva (nee Stanley) McKinney. Identified by Ern McKinney. Date based on apparent age of Margaret. Photo owned by Jim McKinney. , Principal=Edna Mae Jones, Principal=Phoebe Alice Jones

Death*

17 December 1967

Las Vegas, Clark Co., NV, Recollections of S.R., their son:
[Your mother died much later on? I remember seeing her at a Christmas party at your home when I was a small boy.] 1967. [By that time she had a couple of stokes?] She had one. That's all she ever had. A bad one. She lived six months after she had it. She kept on breathing. She didn't actually live. She was 90 years and seven days old when she died. Far as we could tell, she was [bedfast?] that sort of thing. But she didn't seem to be suffering. But she didn't recognize anybody. She babbled. But she didn't seem to be suffering. [When did she move in with you guys?] When she was about 85. [She lived with you several years then?] Four or five years. [What did she do all those years after her husband die and when she moved in with you?] She was just retired in her own little home in Baxter Springs. [Kind of like Ern is doing now, right?] Yeah.^4,8

Burial*

after 17 December 1967

Lowell Cemetery SW/4 NW/4 S32 T34 R25, Lowell, Cherokee Co., KS, Lowell Cemetery where Joseph and Eva are buried near William and Serena Breeden McKinney.⁹

Family

Joseph McKinney

Marriage*

3 July 1901

Children

Stanley Russell McKinney+ (5 Mar 1902 - 2 Nov 1993)
Ernest Melvin McKinney (2 May 1903 - 31 Jul 1993)
Robert Harold McKinney (23 Jun 1904 - Jun 1985)
Joseph Morris McKinney+ (15 Nov 1915 - 23 Mar 1993)

Citations

[S22] Unknown family info, Stanley Bible, Abstract of Concordence Bible of Joseph H. and Phebe J. Stanley (n.p.: n.pub., 11 April 1962); unknown present owner, unknown location.
[S42] Interview with unknown informant (unknown informant address). Unknown repository (unknown repository address).
[S46] Interview with unknown informant (unknown informant address). Unknown repository (unknown repository address).
[S1] Louise Horton, Genealogy of the Wheeler - Millikan and Allied Families (n.p.: n.pub., 1970).
[S2] Unknown compiler, compiler, "Social Security Death Index"; Ancestral File (1993), unknown repository, unknown repository address. Hereinafter cited as "Social Security Death Index."
[S5] 1910 US Federal Census: Spring Valley,Cherokee Co. KS Supervisor Dist. 3,Enum. Dist. 42, Sheet No. 1A, Lines14-18. Family 4. Page 151.
[S155] 1920 US Federal Census: Spring Valley,Cherokee Co. KS Enum. Dist. 40 Ward 4164. Line 72-76. Family 16..
[S2] Unknown compiler, compiler, "Social Security Death Index"; States she died Dec 1967 in Las Vegas. , Ancestral File (1993), unknown repository, unknown repository address. Hereinafter cited as "Social Security Death Index."
[S74] Unknown compiler, compiler, "Correspondence"; Margaret Hunt, April 3, 1993., Ancestral File unknown repository, unknown repository address.